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0,50 German Mark PBT DD Travnik
| Issuer | Privredna Banka Travnik DD (Commercial Bank of Travnik, Joint-stock Company) |
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| Size | 83 x 43 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | PBT DD TRAVNIK 0,50 DEM 0,50 DEM No. {serial} |
| Reverse description | Plain white cardboard reverse bearing a single circular blue ink handstamp applied off-centre toward the upper right. The stamp carries the full bank title around its circumference and the word TRAVNIK with the numeral 1 at centre. Show-through of the obverse printing and serial number is visible against the otherwise blank surface. |
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Privredna Banka Travnik was one of numerous small regional joint-stock banks in Bosnia-Hercegovina that issued emergency fractional currency — Notgeld in all but name — during the severe coin shortage that gripped the former Austro-Hungarian territories in the early 1920s. These local commercial scrip issues filled a gap the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was slow to address, as centralized coinage supply lagged badly behind demand in provincial towns.
Travnik, the old Ottoman-era seat of the Bosnian viziers, was a minor commercial center by this point. The bank itself left almost no archival trace, and surviving examples of this fifty-pfennig piece are genuinely uncommon.